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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:34:32 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0 of 4] Add virtio-console support to qemu
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, borntraeger@de.ibm.com

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
>> To complete qemu virtio device support this patch series add 
>> virtio-console
>> infrastructure to qemu in patch 1/2.
>> Patch 3/4 initializes virtio-console on the tested architectures x86 and
>> powerpc.
>>   
>
> What is the advantage of virtio-console, compared to the standard 
> serial port?

Certain platforms have instructions for anything you can think of but no 
uart.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori